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paul
@nixCraft Nothing beats experienced. I've blown certified people out of the system.
25 November at 14:45 | Open on fedi.nlpagan.net
James_inthe_box

@nixCraft I've met some certified folks that I wouldn't trust to admin my home network, let alone $dayjob...

25 November at 14:47 | Open on infosec.exchange
marco_m_aus_f

@nixCraft Certification is a straightforward process: you pay, you get the certification.

25 November at 14:53 | Open on freiburg.social
Le Lapinours 🐰🐻

@nixCraft We had a tech that was certified by a brand of firewalls.

He couldn't update them in CLI...

25 November at 14:55 | Open on framapiaf.org
Jonas KΓΆritz

@Yahiko @nixCraft you learn how to do stuff the $Vendor way. You'll neither learn how the thing works, nor how to fix it, because failure is rarely an outcome you encounter in training for products.

25 November at 15:30 | Open on social.jonaskoeritz.de
Ryan Frederick
srfaudio

@nixCraft entry level certification is just a way of formally verifying that you were able to get a baseline level of knowledge to start learning and solidifying your understanding of that domain OJT.

Anyone treating certification as something more than this misunderstands what a certification is for.

There are certified people that are both skilled, and very unskilled. There are not-certified people in both categories as well.

Generalizations don't work here, and it's very dependent on the individual.

Also, not all certifications are created equal. On paper, I would view someone with CKA very differently from someone with AWS Cloud Practitioner, for example....but then I would confirm any of those hunches by actually talking to the person.

The cert would be one, small, potential positive as I attempt to learn more about what this person may be skilled in.

But if I talk to them, and their experience doesn't back it up, then the cert isn't going to magically make me ignore their lack of real world competence.

@nixCraft entry level certification is just a way of formally verifying that you were able to get a baseline level of knowledge to start learning and solidifying your understanding of that domain OJT.

Anyone treating certification as something more than this misunderstands what a certification is for.

25 November at 15:57 | Open on defcon.social
𝙍 π™š 𝙙 ♦️ 𝙅 π™š 𝙨 𝙨 π™ž π™˜ 𝙖

@nixCraft as on point as this is, I'd hesitate to increase the fandom of an artist/writer that thinks we live in a post racism society where black people are making stuff up

someone who apologizes for Trump, questions the holocaust etc, then tries to walk it back when there's a backlash, before doubling down in the comic strips

hopefully everyone here knows that and isn't down with it, right?

25 November at 16:05 | Open on tech.lgbt
GraeghosMIUS

@nixCraft LOL, my old contract company wanted to get into web development so they sent a few groups through month long boot camp type training and we all got out with very impressive certifications. And with zero experience none of us were able to get better contract positions as web developers since we were already in high rate positions. They should have had in house development and should have started with newer lower contract rate employees

25 November at 17:08 | Open on mastodon.social
Robert Taylor

@nixCraft fuck Dilbert AND his MAGA creator

25 November at 17:09 | Open on mastodon.social
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